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« One of the most well-known landmarks in the world, the Statue of Liberty Situated in New York Harbor on Liberty Island, is synonymous with freedom and liberty.

On her left hand, she is holding a tablet, which we know is the Declaration of Independance.

On her right hand she brandishes a torch which represents the flame of the freedom.

The statue is draped by a long toga and by a crown on her head, with 7 pikes representing the 7 oceans and continents.

The statue seems to be caricatured, indeed its lines of the face are stressed and her mouth is wide open, we have the impression that she pronounce a judgment.

The young boy is looking at it, so we can assume that he is coming from a foreign country and is coming to live in the united state.

it also has a particular report between the statue and the boy at waist level, the statue in all its magnificence is immense and luxurious whereas the man is three times as small.

There is one relation upper-inferior, as if we had the juxtaposition of two opposite... In the down of the picture, we can see a text, which is a misappropriation of the most famous part of the poem « The New Colossus », written by Emma Lazarus, in 1883.

« Give me your tired, your poor , your huddled masses yearning to breathe free(...) » is transformed in « give me your rich, your famous, your nobel laureate(...) » a blatant opposition ! We can assume it is the statue of liberty talking, With a different way... This document is the reflection of a reality underestimated, the author denounces a current situation.

The first important theme linked to the picture is the one of hope.

Indeed, this young man has certainly lived a dangerous route he must be enormously tired and thinks that has a thing: the hope of a rest! In a way general, his physical dilapidation informs us about its situation, this young man certainly left his country of origin to avoid the promise of a dark future and an obvious poverty.

Many people see in the United States, a dream, an « American dream », the United States is presented as an idealized utopia of the world, everything seems pink and wonderful, this human being thus expects the life about which he dreamed.

We find a diminished and deposed man who tries to reach a deceiver future. This leads us to the other theme of immigration.

In the face of him we see the immense and gigantic statue of Liberty, who carries in her one very rich history.

This monument is a symbol which represents the door of the States, But also the americains.

At the end of the 19th century, the government began to build a special port to welcome the immigrants on the island of Ellis.

Between its creation in 1892 and its closure in 1954, Ellis Island was the front door of the United States for more than 12 million people.

This site is now a part of the historic site of the Statue of Liberty.

So on the image have has the impression that the statue refuses categorically the young man on its territory, that he is excluded and thrown out, that we do not want of him, that he " does not interest ", The disappointment is moreover read on his face.

We have the allegory of America transformed into a cleaning lady, which does the cleaning and which sweep its house of " bad foreigner", normal that the country seems so perfect in such condition.

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